A Study On The Effect Of Income-increasing Of Poor Household From Social Capital Perspective

The problem of poverty has existed since ancient times, in today’s world both developing or developed countries are facing varying degrees of poverty. China’s reform and opening up, with the rapid economic development and poverty alleviation work actively, the poor are significantly reduced. But at the same time, the operation of the market economy exacerbate social differentiation, the gap between rich and poor has gradually expanded, relative poverty is becoming increasingly prominent. Recently issued by the United Nations standards of poverty, the day the purchasing power of less than S1.25is poor, so that our country will have1.5million poor people. Thus, an issue on which our country is still faced with enormous challenges, the Government’s anti-poverty alleviation task is still grim.The one hand, the concept of "social capital" since been introduced into academic research, as an important variable to explain the economic and social development, more and more scholars have used, which showed a strong explanatory power has been increasingly recognized by many researchers. On the other hand, the poverty research, their perspective has also experienced a shift from material poverty, capability poverty to "social exclusion". As a result, the social capital following physical capital, human capital included in the study areas of the poor is an inevitable trend. Therefore, starting from the social capital, to study the problem of poverty, analyze its impact on the income of the poor, to provide empirical evidence, it is particularly important for the future formulation of pro-poor policies.Social capital perspective, as the subject of poor families, from the specific social contact, this paper analyzed social capital research framework. Direct and interaction effect as the starting point, combined with family physical capital, human capital and social capital, through a household production function embedded in social capital, this paper explored the regularity of the income of poor families. Research locations selected for the country in eastern, central, western seven counties, and selected from14villages in eight communities in the questionnaire, for a total payment of and recover over700copies of questionnaires. This paper used survey data to an empirical test on the household production function embedded in social capital, not only the direct effect of the role of physical capital, human capital and social capital play a poverty-stricken household income, further analysis of the three types of capital income poor families interaction effect, and on this basis, comparing the differences in urban and rural families. The main content of each section of this paper is as follows:The first chapter is the introduction part. Firstly, proposed the background of this study, and described the theoretical and practical significance of the writing of this article; Secondly, presented research ideas and structural arrangements; Finally, described the research methods in this article.The second chapter is a literature review. Firstly, by comparing to learn from the research literature of social capital at domestic and international, given the definition of the concept of social capital based on research purposes. Secondly, it briefly summarizes the research on the social capital measure. Finally, social capital and anti-poverty research literature. Domestic and international studies have confirmed the important role played by the process of social capital where anti-poverty.The third chapter is the theoretical analysis. Firstly, we interpreted the evolution of the impoverished connotation, described the similarities and differences with other capital. Secondly, we explored the direct effect of the three types of capital, we analyzed the role of path among the physical capital, social capital and human capital, and thus to infer the interaction mechanism between the capital.The fourth chapter is empirical and inspection. The first section is the choice of the household production function. The second section is the data source description. The third section is the variable declaration. The fourth section is the establishment of the WLS regression model to verify the significant role of the family’s material capital, family human capital and social capital on household income, the interactive effects of social capital and physical capital, human capital is also the positive impact on household income. Finally, we compared and analyzed the differences in urban and rural poor families.The fifth chapter is the main conclusions and policy recommendations. Firstly, we summed up the specification of research findings and empirical conclusions. Secondly, we proposes eight corresponding policy recommendations.The new ideas of this paper is mainly reflected in the following areas:Firstly, in the theoretical aspect, this paper showed the trajectory of evolution along the poverty connotation, systematically analyzed the direct and interaction effect of three types of capital.Second, this paper adopted the structure and cognitive measure method measure social capital, portrayed the subjective and objective dimensions of social capital.Third, empirical research breakthrough in the limitations of traditional anti-poverty research in the social capital perspective. Combined with survey data, this article added an interaction effect variables, estimated that the direct and interaction effect of three types of capital.P.S:this paper is sponsored by The National Social Science Fund Project " Macroeconomic Measure of Social Capital and Its Application"(Authorized number:08XTJ003) and The National Natural Science Fund Project’Theoretical and Empirical Study on Effect Management of Government’s Anti-poverty Policy from Social Capital Perspective"(Authorized number:70873097).